Surviving Job Loss: Paper Makers in Maine and Minnesota

Authors

Kenneth A. Root, Luther College
Rosemarie J. Park, University of Minnesota

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Series

WE focus series

DOI

10.17848/9780880995085

Abstract

Root and Park examine the plight of long-tenured workers displaced from two paper mills—their paths to reemployment, retirement decisions, and the personal struggles they confront.

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Study, Job Loss, and the Paper Industry
3. Job Loss at Verso
4. Responding to Job Loss
5. Assistance Provided to Help Dislocated Workers
6. When Women Are Job Losers
7. When Couples Lose Their Jobs
8. Islands in the Storm: The Plight of Two Communities
9. A Canadian Comparison
10. The Future of Economic Displacement for Papermakers
11. Epilogue

Appendix A: 2012 Confidential Survey of Workers Formerly Employed by Verso in Bucksport, Maine, and Sartell, Minnesota

Appendix B: 2012 Confidential Survey of Workers Displaced after the Fire at the Sartell Paper Mill

Appendix C: Methodological Considerations

Appendix D: 2013 Letter to Married Couples Formerly Employed by Verso in Sartell, Minnesota

ISBN

9780880995078 (pbk.) ; 9780880995085 (ebook)

Subject Areas

LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Job security and unemployment dynamics; Dislocated workers